Hello!
Sorry for the last of everything the last couple weeks or so. It's been a hectic time, and it's been hard to find a balance between work and home. Both my dad and aunt had followup cancer screenings, which took two of my days off because I went with them, and then I had house chores that needed done the final day to prepare for a trip I was taking.
Luckily both are still cancer free/in remission!
Work also cut my department's hours down, which is normal (and annoying/difficult), but a coworker I overlap with on Fridays hasn't been doing his share of the workload and has been making unnecessary problems for everyone else, so I was doing a lot of cleanup of literally everything he touched. We also had a "special project" handed to us that needed done immediately on top of our regular monthly expiration check. In the end, we donated several hundred thousand (probably closer to 1 million) dollars in product because it wasn't selling and had to be physically pulled/moved and processed. They wanted it done in 3 weeks. We did it in 2.
As it turned out, I wasn't sleeping a lot because the combined work and family stress was making my already light sleep more easy to interrupt, so I was getting 3-4 hours a night of very broken sleep, assuming I didn't wake up at 4am and stay awake until my work alarm at 5.
More recently, one of my dogs, who has been sick and had failing health for the last few weeks, walked into the woods and didn't come back. While that event only happened 3 or so days ago, there was a couple weeks where I noted it coming, and for as much as I pretend they're stinky, furry gremlins, those are still my dogs. And now one of them's just gone. Grieving, as I've learned, is a process. And not a fun one.
I don't like complaining about my home life. I don't like having to explain why I'm not active at the moment. But I'm also in a position of responsibility in a couple rps here and I feel guilty about asking my plotting and writing partners to just hold everything while I kick my life back into a semblance of alignment.
So for those of you waiting and being patient with me, thank you. I'm sorry it's taken me some time to get it all sorted out.
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